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Recycle Cooking Oil – and help Alder Hey

27
Sep
2017

Merseyside and Halton residents are urged to recycle their used cooking oil for a charity drive to benefit Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Living Fuels has teamed up with Veolia and Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA) to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Charity, with a new campaign launching in Recycle Week (25 September – 1 October).

Running for two months from 25th September 2017, every litre of used cooking oil recycled at the centres will not only be used to generate green electricity, but it will also be turned into a donation for Alder Hey Children’s Charity.

Residents are encouraged to take their used cooking oil to collection tanks at any of the 16 Household Waste Recycling Centres in the region. Once collected, the oil is taken to Living Fuels’ state-of-the-art recycling facility and recovered naturally into an environmentally friendly bioliquid, LF100. This bioliquid is then used in Living Fuels’ renewable power stations to generate carbon neutral electricity for the National Grid at times of unexpected power demand, helping to lower the UK’s reliance on fossil fuel derived energy generation.

Rob Murphy, Operations Director of Living Fuels, said “Just one litre of used cooking oil can provide enough renewable electricity to make 240 cups of tea, and with a donation to Alder Hey Hospital for each litre, there’s one more great reason to recycle used oil”.

Jeff Sears, Director at resource management company Veolia, explained: “It is estimated that £88m per year is spent on removing pipe blockages. We are proud to offer residents a sustainable way to dispose of used cooking oil that will also be turned into a donation to support the great work that Alder Hey Children’s Charity do.”
Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey in the Park a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 275,000 patients and families that are cared for every year. The funds raised will help to develop better, safer medicines and treatment to benefit young patients at Alder Hey and children across the world.

How to get involved:

Store your excess oil in a jar or suitable container and take it to one of the 16 tanks across Merseyside.

The oil is collected at the recycling centres and then deposited into Living Fuel’s state-of-the-art recycling facility.

It is then processed into an environmentally friendly bioliquid which is then used to make carbon neutral electricity at one of the company’s renewable power stations which goes to the national grid.